AI-Driven Security Engineer - Hybrid Training & Research

Camwebdir; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

23 days holiday

Birthday day off

Private medical insurance

Life insurance 4x salary

Salary sacrifice pension

Enhanced family leave

Employee Assistance Program

Cycle to work

Job summary

Darktrace in Cambridge and London offers a hybrid role combining security analysis, ML research, and software engineering. You will participate in a 12-week training program to build expertise in threat detection and investigation using the Darktrace platform.

Post-training, you will join the security engineering team, developing AI-driven hypotheses, conducting initial research, and releasing enhancements to customers with ongoing improvements through cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• PhD in a technical area preferred or strong research background.
• Interest or knowledge in cyber security, networks and AI threats.
• Proficiency in Python, including asynchronous code and data analysis pipelines.
• Familiarity with software engineering best practices (OO design, CI, unit testing).
• Experience with AI/ML techniques (statistics, clustering, classification, anomaly detection, embeddings, LLM usage).

Responsibilities

• Complete a 12-week structured training programme to develop threat detection and investigation skills.
• Join security engineering to automate the security analysis process on the Darktrace platform.
• Own end-to-end creation of AI-driven hypotheses spanning research, release to customers, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with machine learning, security research, and software engineering teams.

Skills

Python

Cyber security

AI/ML techniques

Software engineering best practices

Education

PhD preferred

Tools

Continuous Integration

Job description

Darktrace in Cambridge and London offers a hybrid role combining security analysis, ML research, and software engineering. You will participate in a 12-week training program to build expertise in threat detection and investigation using the Darktrace platform.

Post-training, you will join the security engineering team, developing AI-driven hypotheses, conducting initial research, and releasing enhancements to customers with ongoing improvements through cross-team collaboration.